The file command can identify image file types by extracting data from the files themselves. $ file Emmy.jpg Emmy.jpg: JPEG image data, progressive, precision 8, 704x584, components 3 ...

For the last two decades, PNGs haven't seen any changes. They've just sort of done their thing without complaint. That is, until today, when the W3C-owned Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Working Group ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which manages web standards and guidelines, recently published new specifications for the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format. The updated ...

TIFF stands for tagged image file format and it’s long been the gold standard for printing high-quality images. ... While there are many more formats, these are the most common.

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

These spectral files can contain 30, 100, or more data points per pixel, causing file sizes to balloon into multi-gigabyte territory—making them unwieldy to store and analyze.

HEIC is the file format name Apple has chosen for the new HEIF standard. HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format, and, as the name suggests, is a more streamlined way of storing image files.

AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing.Many ...

HEIF is a significantly more efficient codec than JPEG, and it's also dependent on having the newer H.265/HEVC (high-efficiency video coding) video codec — most commonly used by Ultra HD/4K Blu ...